![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
Beware, outspoken and somewhat bitter politicking. Read at your own risk.
So, President Bush says that Sept. 11 was Pearl Harbor and the Afghanistan/Iraq wars are like WWII.
In both instances, according to him, America went to war only after the attack of a "merciless enemy."
So that would have been Japan in WWII. Of course Japan is an American ally now, which is undoubtably the conclusion Bush wants us all to reach. The deep and tearing irony of it, of course, is that all that occured after the US dropped two atomic bombs on Japan, completely leveling two cities, killing hundreds of thousands of people (most of them civillians), and smashing the world into the nuclear age.
And since this is the nuclear age, we have to worry about things like bothersome dictators coming up with "weapons of mass destruction," so much so that a president can use the merest rumor of them to drop our country into war.
Because the gods forbid that someone with a grudge against the US, far too common in this day and age, should acquire that destructive power. Even just a single warhead, strategically aimed, could mean the complete destruction of life as we know it.
And of course we would know, having already done it ourselves.
Bush also wants to equate himself with Franklin D. Roosevelt, which is also tearingly funny on a variety of different levels. One of those is the fact that Roosevelt helped to pull the US out of the Great Depression, wheras Bush's record is nowhere near so good. Since Bush was elected, millions of jobs have gone up in smoke, the economy's tumbled since it's highs during the Clinton administration, the deficit has balloned wildly to keep up with war expenditures, oil prices go higher and higher, and oh yes, looks like poverty's on the rise, too.
So, President Bush says that Sept. 11 was Pearl Harbor and the Afghanistan/Iraq wars are like WWII.
In both instances, according to him, America went to war only after the attack of a "merciless enemy."
So that would have been Japan in WWII. Of course Japan is an American ally now, which is undoubtably the conclusion Bush wants us all to reach. The deep and tearing irony of it, of course, is that all that occured after the US dropped two atomic bombs on Japan, completely leveling two cities, killing hundreds of thousands of people (most of them civillians), and smashing the world into the nuclear age.
And since this is the nuclear age, we have to worry about things like bothersome dictators coming up with "weapons of mass destruction," so much so that a president can use the merest rumor of them to drop our country into war.
Because the gods forbid that someone with a grudge against the US, far too common in this day and age, should acquire that destructive power. Even just a single warhead, strategically aimed, could mean the complete destruction of life as we know it.
And of course we would know, having already done it ourselves.
Bush also wants to equate himself with Franklin D. Roosevelt, which is also tearingly funny on a variety of different levels. One of those is the fact that Roosevelt helped to pull the US out of the Great Depression, wheras Bush's record is nowhere near so good. Since Bush was elected, millions of jobs have gone up in smoke, the economy's tumbled since it's highs during the Clinton administration, the deficit has balloned wildly to keep up with war expenditures, oil prices go higher and higher, and oh yes, looks like poverty's on the rise, too.
Tags: